This is a rectangular red lacquered tray ornamented with a delicately carved design. This lacquered tray was created with a carved lacquer technique which involves carving on a surface thickened with multiple layers of lacquer, and such carving on lacquer is also called carved red lacquer Chuckhong(剔紅). The middle of the tray expresses Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, a painting of seven recluses who lived in the bamboo grove, enjoyed alcohol and music, and spent time with clear and lofty conversations after turning their backs to corrupted politicians in the late Wei Dynasty. The left side shows the reality that is expressed with a large magnificent triple-story building, and the center and right side unfold a contrasting view of the bamboo grove. In the secluded bamboo glove between the front mountain beneath the clouds and the faraway mountain, seven sages play a game of go beneath a pine tree, drink and chat in the forest, and comment on the poems and paintings while unrolling scrolls. The edge of the tray engraves birds that sit on plum trees at the left and right of two camellia flowers and includes the space as a natural domain. Paintings of seven sages of the bamboo grove were very popular in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. These paintings stress the landscape backgrounds rather than the figures, and this tray mirrors the trend of the same era.